Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-25
EASTERN NEWS.
BOOdler McGarigle Effects
a Clever Escape.
BUT WAS HE KIDNAPPED.
Chineh-bu Depredating the Har-
vest Fields, and Seriously
Injuring the Crops.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CHICAGO, July 24.-W. J. McGari-
gle, the convicted boodler has escaped,
and to-day every policeman and de-
tective in Chicago has been trying
vainly to find him. kilograms have
been sent all over the country in the
hope of heading him off, but notwith-
standing these efforts towards his~re-
capture little hope is entertained that
he will ever again be in the custody Of
the people at whose unlawful expense
he throve for years.
Dast evening Sheriff Mattison took
McGarigle to his residence, and while
there the prisoner asked permission to
take bath, and he was permitted to
enter the bath room and close the.door.
In few moments the Sheriff called
for the prisoner, but the bird had
flown.
LEF, IN THE LURCH.
Although McGarigle was in the GUS
tody of the sheriff on the case for
which he was tried and convicted
he was still out on bonds of over $780,
900 on twenty other indictments. His
bondsmen are w. G.. Mcdonald, a
prominent merchant, and f. j. Leh-
man. This evening United States At
torney Grinnell declared unqualified.
ly that the bondsmen were yet liable
in case McGarigle was not recaptured
and that the bonds would be forfeited.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
Information that States Attor-
ney Grinnell could not keep his en-
gagement with McGarigle was,
it seems, communicated to McGarigle
before 6 80 p. NJ, and McGarigle was
deeply disappointed, and pleaded
with the Sheriff to be taken home
anyhow. "Chief Clerk Dougherty
would be there" McGarigle said, "to
make a final settlement of the ex-
Warden's accounts" Dougherty was
not at McGarigle's residence. and to-
night denied having an appointment
with him. This fact, coupled with
the statements of the neighbors that a
horse and buggy were waiting last
night near McGarigle's residence,
tend to confirm the belief that matters
were pre-arranged, as the residence
is within fifteen minutes ride of the
pier at Evanston, where tug might
easily have been taken. The infer
ence is drawn in some quarters that
McGarigle is afoat in Lake Michi-
gan, safe on his way to the Straits OF
Mackinaw.
A KIDNAPPING THEORY.
A novel theory to explain the dis
appearance of McGarigle was quite
generally discussed this evening. The
idea was nothing less than that he
had been kidnapped, and his former
companions in the Doodle ring were
the persons suspected of making away
with him. The motive ascribed is
fear that he (McGarigle), whom they
undoubtedly knew was negotiating
with the States Attorney, would make
such disclosures as, beyond peradven-
ture, would send all of the indicted
commissioners to the penitentiary and
also involve persons not in office,
but of infinitely greater Importance
than those yet brought to book. The
States Attorney acknowledged tonight
that the sticking point in the confer
ences, between himself and McGar-
igle, was the refusal of the latter to
say that he would give information
duplicating Mcdonald. To bear out
the kidnapping theory, attention was
called to numerous suspicious circum-
stances, slight in themselves, but the
greatest stress is laid on the fact that
as things stood it meant to McGarigle
a rigorous prosecution of the twenty
one additional indictments, while a
disclosure, such as described, guaran-
teed him freedom and no risk except
from the anger of his associates.